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Parent topics
- Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
- Dynamical system [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Complex system [r]: Add brief definition or description
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Other related topics
- Allostasis and allostatic load [r]: The physiological adaptation process to perturbing stressors, which acting long-term may cause chronic illness. [e]
- Biological signalling [r]: The exchange of signals within and between biological systems. [e]
- Hormesis [r]: A quantitative and qualitative dose-response relationship in which the effect at low concentrations occurs in the opposite direction from that expected from the effect observed at higher concentrations. [e]
- Steady state [r]: A situation with constant system properties despite non-vanishing energy flow. [e]
- Equilibrium [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Equilibrium (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Flux [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Control theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Metabolism [r]: The modification of chemical substances by living organisms. [e]
- Physiology [r]: The study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of tissues and how they interact. [e]
- Human physiology [r]: Science of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of humans in good health, their organs, and the cells of which they are composed. [e]
- Physiological stress [r]: Biological consequences of the failure of an organism to respond appropriately to emotional or physical threats to its being, whether actual or imagined. [e]
- Rheostasis (biology) [r]: The biochemical and physiological processes that serve the adaptive needs of an organism facing internal or external environmental challenges through graduated quantitative regulation. [e]
- Apoptosis [r]: Programmed cell death by which cells in a multicellular organism undergo a controlled death. [e]
